The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
Title | The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 2013-04-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393348075 |
“Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I’d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion” —Cheryl Strayed, Wild “The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman’s heart and mind in language for everybody—language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this.”—Boston Evening Globe
Twenty-one Love Poems
Title | Twenty-one Love Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN |
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Title | Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2021-04-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 039386734X |
The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation. In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the act of mothering to be both determined by and distinct from the institution of motherhood as it is imposed on all women everywhere. A “powerful blend of research, theory, and self-reflection” (Sandra M. Gilbert, Paris Review), Of Woman Born revolutionized how women thought about motherhood and their own liberation. With a stirring new foreword from National Book Critics Circle Award–winning writer Eula Biss, the book resounds with as much wisdom and insight today as when it was first written.
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981
Title | A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 1993-07-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393348156 |
“We are in the presence here of a major American poet whose voice at mid-century in her own life is increasingly marked by moral passion.”—New York Times Book Review
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
Title | Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 81 |
Release | 2013-04-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393345750 |
In her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim—to discover—what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored. "I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's distinctive voice.
Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970
Title | Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 391 |
Release | 1995-09-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393348059 |
More than 200 poems collected from Adrienne Rich's first six books, plus a dozen others of those decades. From their first publication, when Rich was twenty-one, in the prestigious Yale Younger Poets series, the successive volumes of her poetry have both charted the growth of her own mind and vision and mirrored our tempestuous, unsettled age. Her unmistakable voice, speaking even from the earliest poems with rare assurance and precision, wrestles with urgent questions while never failing to explore new poetic territory. In Collected Early Poems, readers will once again bear witness to Rich's triumphant assertion of the centrality of poetry in our intertwined personal and political lives.
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985
Title | Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1994-07-17 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0393348040 |
That Adrienne Rich is a not only a major American poet but an incisive, compelling prose writer is made clear once again by this collection, in which she continues to explore the social and political context of her life and art. Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past.